--- title: If the news scares you, ask an adult to explain and limit how much n… — Handling anger and everyday fears · tree and pragmatics description: If the news scares you, ask an adult to explain and limit how much news you watch; the news shows the worst things and often not the helpers. Who acts: news, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:21 # text = If the news scares you, ask an adult to explain and limit how much news you watch; the news shows the worst things and often not the helpers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 scares scare VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 limit limit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 14 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 15 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obj 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 watch watch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl:relcl 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 amod _ _ 25 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 often often ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 helpers helper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scare** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the news | you | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **limit** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Causer clause=Goal | | 5 | **watch** | present | you | much news | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | | 6 | **show** | present | the news | the worst things and the helpers | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:21`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Handling anger and everyday fears, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/291-handling-anger-and-fear/20/) - next →: [Handling anger and everyday fears, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/291-handling-anger-and-fear/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/291-handling-anger-and-fear/)